UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

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Re: UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

Originally Posted by humbolt

This stuff probably shouldn't be taught in hard science classes. It would be foolish, though, to not make it available. Denying human spirituality is denying reality.

AS IU showed earlier in the thread, creationism and ID can be taught, even in science class. The only thing this law does is not allow schools which receive government money to teach them as evidence based science. This does not stop a science class from teaching about them, as long as it is not taught as science. It could be taught as a nonscientific alternative to evolution though.

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Re: UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

Originally Posted by Sababa

yet it truly seeks answers and is willing to question itself. And that is how we learn. THE MORE YOU KNOW

I'm a science enthusiast, like many. Serious religious inquiry also questions itself. The results of such inquiry may or may not produce a predictable or even desirable result, depending on the personal sincerity of the inquiring party. That's the nature of spiritual investigation.

Re: UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

Originally Posted by humbolt

I'm a science enthusiast, like many. Serious religious inquiry also questions itself. The results of such inquiry may or may not produce a predictable or even desirable result, depending on the personal sincerity of the inquiring party. That's the nature of spiritual investigation.

except it is done without evidence and thus has no place being taught as science.

Re: UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

Originally Posted by MMC

Like an elective.....not required to graduate, huh.

Whats the cost for what they would classify as Community College as opposed to Universities?

Well our school system is very different from the US. You don't really " graduate" or receive a diploma. We have GCSE's which we take at the age of 16, you take a GCSE course in Maths, English, Science, a language, IT and then 3 classes of your choice. GCSE'S are a 2 year course and at the end of the 2 years you sit exams which determine what your next step is. You either go on in school for another 2 years after that and take your A-Levels which normally lead to higher education ( university) or you take on an apprenticeship, take some courses in your local community college or join the work force.

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Re: UK bans Teaching of Creationism in Any school that receives Public Funding.....

Originally Posted by MMC

On Thursday, the United Kingdom expanded its ban on the teaching of creationism from all state schools, to all state schools as well as semi-private Free Schools and Academies.

The decision effectively means that no school in the United Kingdom can teach creationism or any other “anti-scientific” dogma without losing the entirety of its funding, as they would be violating “the requirement on every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum. According to a press release from the British Humanist Association (BHA), the new rules “explicitly require that pupils are taught about the theory of evolution, and prevent academy trusts from teaching ‘creationism’ as scientific fact.”

Not even Intelligent Design — the favored faux-scientific theory of American creationists who wish to import biblical beliefs into public school classrooms — can be taught, as “creationism” is defined by the new rule as “any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes cannot account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution.”.....snip~